APS
29th APS Annual Convention · 2017
Gestures Represent Action Information about Force
- Heather Mangelsdorf
University of Chicago - Kensy Cooperrider
University of Chicago - Susan Goldin-Meadow
University of Chicago
Abstract
Participants solved the Tower of Hanoi with a heavy or light disc set, then explained their solution without the discs present. Grasping gestures describing the two sets significantly differed in speed, acceleration, and trajectory, suggesting gestures encode the force required to move discs of different weights.
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